His first practice had been gained in Scrawling faces in his copybooks, and expanding the notes of his musical texts into figures with arms and legs.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He sprang up, stepped across the room, put his finger on the spot where Limber Tim had stood Scrawling with his big pencil the day he was so embarrassed at Sandy's wedding, and shouted out- "Look here!
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller
That of my sister-in-law I was not so familiar with, though my brother recognized it as that of his wife, but that of our brother was a perfect reproduction down to the smallest accidents, and that which was given as the responses of my cousin equally so, and executed with a rapidity of which I was incapable-a large Scrawling hand, that of our brother being of a character entirely opposed, slowly and laboriously formed, with occasional omissions of the last line of a final n, quite common in his writing.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman